Our Hiding Place

Some pioneers were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke in the west, stretching for miles across the prairie.  Soon it was evident that the dried grass was burning fiercely, and the fire was coming toward them rapidly. They had crossed a river the day before but it would be impossible to go back to that before the flames would be upon them. One man only seemed to have an understanding as to what should be done. He gave the command to set fire to the grass behind them. Then when a space was burned over, the whole company moved back upon it.

As the flames roared on toward them from the west, a little girl cried out in terror. "Are you sure we shall not all be burned up?"

The leader replied, "My child, the flames CANNOT reach us HERE. . . .
for we are standing "WHERE THE FIRE HAS BEEN!" *

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness" (Romans 1:18).  And, because of our sin, we are subject to His wrath.  Yet, because of His love for us, God has provided a way of salvation.

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were STILL sinners, Christ DIED for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be SAVED by His life."

Jesus “bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24).  He took the punishment for SIN for us.

On Him Almighty vengeance fell,
Which would have sunk a world to hell.
He bore it for a chosen race,
And thus becomes our Hiding Place .

-- Robert G. Lee

To be found in Christ – our Hiding Place – we must:  believe in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn to Him in repentance (2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) into Him (Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:27), and then continue to live for Him (1 John 1:7).

The fires of God's judgment burned themselves out on Him, and ALL 
who are in Christ are safe forever, for they are NOW standing 
"WHERE THE FIRE HAS BEEN!"

Are YOU safe in THE Hiding Place ?

God bless you!

David A. Sargent, Minister 

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

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